China, 77 Ancient bronze and iron round coins, Tatar, Yuan a...

Hammer

£3,400

China, 77 Ancient bronze and iron round coins, Tatar, Yuan and Ming dynasties (907-1619), to include a Sheng Zong Tong He yuan bao, probably a later copy, 22mm, 5.2g, a Dao Zong (1055-1101) Qing Ning tong bao, Hartill CCC-18.15, 23mm, 2.3g, Shi Zong (1161-90), CCC-18.47, a Zhang Zong (1190-1209) Tai He zhong bao, cut rim converted to a charm, CCC-18.64, two Wu Zong (1308-11) Da Yuan tong bao, 40mm, 18.2 g and 39mm, 21.3g, CCC-19.46, a Zhu Yuanzhang (1361-68) Da Zhong tong bao, 43mm, 15.1g, CCC-20.45, three Tai Zu (1368-98) Hon Wu tong bao, 39mm, 1.6g, CCC-20.99, FD1934, 45mm, 26.7g, CCC-20.111 and 45mm, 22.9g, CCC-20.112

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Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1905-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke was an antiquarian and avid collector of Asian works of art, coins and antiquities principally collecting from the 1930s to the 1970s. He amassed a good reference library on Chinese & Asian coins and wrote on several occasions (1969-70) to to the academic F.A. Turk regarding the study of coin amulets and other non-currency coinages of China. A number of the Asian numismatic reference books will be offered in our 29th March sale.



Arber-Cooke initially lived in Wimbledon, Greater London and was involved with the Surrey Archaeological Society. He wrote the book 'Old Wimbledon', with a foreword the MP Sir Arthur Fell, published in 1927. He later moved to Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales, again involved with local archaeology and wrote the History of Llandovery, published in 1975.